If the government knew about aliens, should it tell us?
At the UFO whistleblower hearings in Congress, military pilots, commanders and intelligence officers claimed the US government had recovered crashed alien craft containing remains of its crew and was working to reverse-engineer it.
The government said it had no proof of alien life.
There are a few things that do not fit.
First, no military personnel who work on classified programs can blow any whistle that was not manufactured by a government agency. What is the point of this? They were acting on government instructions, saying the opposite of what the government tells us.
What was this charade of contradictory messages about?
Flooding the zone is a strategy that releases contradictory messages, mixes facts with fictional details so that in the end nobody knows what is true and what is not. This means that either the government has information on aliens and wants to hide it or it has no information on aliens and wants to hide that, too - potentially using it as a smokescreen for something else, for example advanced weapons testing.
It would be highly amusing if the government had used science fiction playbooks to cover up military technology after decades of denying the existence of UFOs (renaming them as UAPs is another flood point).
If the government knew, should it drop all contradictory messages and tell the truth? Or would truth be something that mankind could not stomach at this time?
Imagine the president of the United States stepped in front of a bouquet of microphones:
“We have proof of alien intelligences visiting Earth. We also have some of their craft and are reverse-engineering it. This is a great business opportunity. Be reasonable, people.”
And would they be?
Would they be reasonable?
There are two primary ways this could play out.
1: Mankind acts at its best
A spark illuminates the human night. It is the realization that there is an infinite universe out there. It used to be the fabric of stories. Now it has become reality.
We are standing at the threshold of the interstellar era of mankind.
It is a new era of enlightenment. The commercial media landscape dries up overnight. Interest in knowledge, thought, science, wisdom, philosophy, literature and the arts expands exponentially. Suddenly humanity wants to become the best version of itself.
Instead of looking at themselves in self-centered isolation, human beings raise their eyes and take in the grand panorama of the universe. Political divides disappear like lines of chalk on a sidewalk in spring rain. Gambling joints remain empty. Pornography sites have no visitors. Criminals want to turn their lives around and turn towards the light.
The liars and ideologues, manipulators and frauds, marauders and mercenaries, all those pied pipers that have led humanity into the darkness for so long fall into oblivion as if they had never existed. Mankind rids itself of these agents of annihilation as any civilization must do if it wants to rise.
Dystopian fantasies fade like the nightmares they have been. The rising morning sun of a new future burns them to ashes.
This is a monolith moment in human history:
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and a classic movie by Stanley Kubrick, an alien monolith appears among ape men. By its supreme energy it raises the human race towards becoming space men, and they find a second monolith on the moon. This inspires an interplanetary pilgrimage to Jupiter, where astronaut David Bowman finds a third monolith and the understanding of existence.
The aliens are impressed by the sudden turn of mankind from consumer culture to an interstellar race and alter the reserved behavior they have held over hundreds of years of watching us. They acknowledge that man is ready to step out into space.
This is how the interstellar era of mankind begins.
2: Mankind acts at its worst
Can you see the crowds racing towards the alien landing sites guided by alien spotter apps? Look how they blindly run into the high energy drive fields of the ships. Those surviving the attempt at a historic selfie with aliens tell stories of alien attacks copying the tropes of SciFi horror TV shows.
Platform algorithms of doom make these invasion reports go to the top while the boring voices - those who offer truth and thought - get pushed down to the bottom where nobody can see them. AI slop amplifies those lies. Lies feed upon lies and this tornado of fake grinds up every bit of truth. Nobody knows what is true anymore. Nobody can tell what really happened and nobody thinks they should. Truth is irrelevant. What gets the most clicks, likes and follows is what counts.
Human virtues and truth fall like dominoes one after the other. And when the last tile has fallen, will humanity still stand?
Digital hate mobs turn into real lynch mobs. The hordes drag the reasonable out of their houses, decry them as traitors who sympathize with the alien invasion, and burn them alive at the stake.
The worst of mankind rise to riot, rob, rape, and murder. A mob in a delirious frenzy of bloodlust imagines itself an army of freedom fighters, marching to cleanse the world.
Warlords attack the National Guard and firefighters, declaring the government an enemy - taken over by alien body snatchers. AI-driven home lab nutcases release deadly viruses, imagining themselves as instruments of Judgment Day.
In the chaos, war breaks out all over the globe. Nobody knows who is fighting whom and why. Black clouds of a burned civilization cover the horizons and above them stand, in ghostly stillness, the mushroom clouds of nuclear explosions like statues of regret over a planet-wide cemetery.
The aliens reconsider. After hundreds of years of watching us they decide mankind is a lost cause. Only one thing is left to do: this madness must not spread to other worlds.
No human being sees the aliens leave. As the last tile drops not a single human is alive.
Seeing what is: this is deceptively difficult.
I congratulate the US government on its well thought-out strategy of flooding the zone.
It may have saved mankind.
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